07/08/2020
Hey! 🌼 I’m Fez and I run Sustainable sundayz, a platform that centres sustainability. I host events and make resources to try and help others (and myself) become more climate aware. I’m really interested and passionate about social change and outside of Sustainable Sundayz I’m an aspiring academic who’s scholarship area focuses on marginalised communities, decolonisation and education.
When did your sustainable journey start? 🌺
I have always been aware of some of the detriment my own actions have caused to the environment but over the past year I’ve really got interested is trying to challenge these habits. When I started Sustainable Sundayz I had the hope that I would learn more about it and I defiantly have. I know more about things I had never connected to the sustainability such as anti-racism and decolonisation (topics I’m well read in in other fields). Even though I make content and host events about sustainability I still feel very new to it all and think there is not a linear way to think about it. People have access to different things and that affects how involved they can be (or even how included they feel). Personally I didn’t see other women of colour being represented in ‘sustainability’ spaces and I think it’s important to be that voice so that the whole movement becomes inclusive, accessible and intersectional. While saying that we need more than just a few minority voices to decolonise the whole movement and actually make its intersectional and accessible.
What's your biggest advice for someone's that's starting their sustainable journey? 🌸 DON’T MEASURE WHAT YOU DO AGAINST OTHERS! This is easier said than done. I eat meat, I have clothes from fast fashion brands, I waste food and water and get pointless Ubers but thats okay! Trying to change your habits takes time (you are basically unlearning consumerism while living in a very capitalist system). Things take time so allow yourself some time to change. Be proactive, read, listen and engage with others but don’t feel shame for not doing what they are doing. All the small acts towards being sustainability are worth it no matter how small
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